The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1887-06-17

fourths of their salaries here, while some
spend tsso or three times the whole $5000
Washington gets perhaps 81, 100000 out of
the salaries of congressman alone, and it gets
several times this much out of its resident
government clerks. Take the treasury for
instance, with It's 4 600 clerks; where will you
find asfaetory which will compare with this
in wages to its employees? The average must
4, be not far from 81 900 each a year, and the
total will amount to millions. All that
town gets from factory is
the wees of its employees, and these
( sgovermfseitt departments are to Wash
4 inatnlk Just wIat factories are to Pittsburg
and Chicago The only difference is the gov
ernment factory hands get higher wages, and
these are never scaled, no matter how hard
the times nor how scarce money is in other
q. parts of the country. Government clerks as
a rule spend more freely and save less than
men receiving the same salaries elsewhere
They are generally away from home They
have much leisure on their hands and there is
every temptation for them to be extravagant.
They are so, and but few of them save any
thing. These government factories increase
every year, and they will continue to grow
as fast as the country increases in population
and wealth. Another source of increase in
Washington's size is the social element, which
has become SO prominent lately. Every
millionaire who comes to Washington brings
retinue of servants, and his yearly expenses
run up into the tens of thousands. He builds
and invests, and the result is that he is worth
dozen poor men in building up the city.
Then there are the general expenses of the
government, amounting to over $l00,000, 900
a year. Washington business men get some
Of this, and on the whole the city manages to
live
These are some of the sources of our national
capitals growth. I do not give them to ad-
vertise the city, but to correct false i'm
preston. ***
I saw ex-Minister Kasson on the street to-
day. He has apparently entirely recovered
his health and his eye is bright and his step
free. He has been residing at the capital the
past winter and has been engaged, it is said,
upon a diplomatic history Of the United
States *x*
Judge Kelley worked hard while he was
south this spring, and has come back brim-
full of its agricultural possibilities. He tells
me the soil of the south will raise other things
than its people suppose, and he predicts that
it will one day have as diversified an agricul-
ture as other parts of the United States. He
tells me an interesting story about the growth
of clover in Georgia, and says that its plant
ing dates back to the early days Of the war.
Before this time it was not thought that
clover could be grown there, but during
Kelleys recent visit he found the state
covered with the finest and richest varieties.
He says:
During the war was a strong Union
man. was in favor of the severest fighting
1f s,,& &LoA
would the war close the sooner. When it
was over was for peace and reunion with all
my SOUL and did everything 1 could for
tile south. The southern states were very
poor, and they were out of all the necessities
of life. They especially lacked seed, and
Governor Wofford, of Georgia, came to
Washington to see if he could not procure
some for the farmers of his state. How he
nsppeue<l to come to me do not know, hut
he did call upon me Immediately after his
arrival, and told me Of the destitution of
Georgia. He asked me to help him. l had
not sent off my allotment of seed for the
session, and l told him that I would turn
these over to him. | went the next day to
my friends in congress who represented city
districts and got them to sign over their
seeds to me, and turned them all over to
Wofford. He sent them to his home at
Cartersyille, Ga. and they were from thence
distributed all over the state. At this time /
urged upon Governor Wofford the necessity of
a diversified agriculture throughout the
south, and l told him the country would
never be prosperous as long as cotton was its
only staple crop, and they relied upon arti-
fetal fertilizers. You must raise cattle, said
/, and keep horses instead of mules You
ought to raise clover and make the ground
pay for its own enrichment. told the gov
ernor that believed clover would grow in
Georgia, and he replied that he thought SO
too, and he told me how just before the war
began Virginian had come to Georgia to
live, and had brought with him IL bag or SO
of clover seed. He had sown this and it had
produced n fine crop. The result was that
his neighbors were giving up their old idea
that clover could not be grown in Georgia,
and he predicted that in time the state
would be carpeted with it. This was more
than twenty years ago, and his prediction
has since been fulfilled"
FRANK G. CARPENTER